Under new EU rules, Google and other online platforms will have to sign licensing agreements with musicians, authors, news publishers and journalists to use their work, and will have to install filters to prevent users from uploading copyrighted materials.
A pedestrian walks past signage at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on April 25, 2018.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook will be forced to filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the European Union's $1 trillion creative industries.
"When it comes to completing Europe's digital single market, the copyright reform is the missing piece of the puzzle," the Commission's president Jean-Claude Juncker said in a statement.The European Parliament gave a green light last month to a proposal that has pitted Europe's creative industry against tech companies, internet activists and consumer groups.
But 19 countries, including France and Germany, endorsed the revamp, while Belgium, Estonia and Slovenia abstained. Google said the new rules would hurt Europe's creative and digital economies, while critics said it would hit cash-strapped smaller companies rather than the tech giants.
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